Letter In Prose And Verse To Mrs. Bunbury (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
MADAM,I read your letter with all that allowance which critical candour couldrequire, but after all find so much to object ...
Poems about smirking (21 Poems)
The Progress Of Marriage (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Aetatis suae fifty-two,A rich Divine began to wooA handsome young imperious girl,Nearly related to an Earl.Her parents and her friends ...
Wanderlieder (John Hay Poems)
I stand at the break of dayIn the Champs Elysees.The tremulous shafts of dawningAs they shoot o'er the Tuileries early,Strike ...
Salaam! (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
Serene, complacent, satisfied, Content with things that be; The paragon of paltriness Upraised for all to see; With loving pride he cherishes His mediocrity! The smirking, ...
A Landscape (John Cunningham Poems)
Now that summer's ripen'd bloomFrolics where the winter frown'd,Stretch'd upon these banks of broom,We command the landscape round.Nature in the ...
Written January First, 1792 (Janet Little Poems)
TO-DAY old wrinkl'd Time appears;A smile adorns his brow,While to our list of fleeting years,He adds the ninety-two.Our fav'rite hopes, ...
The Women of the Town (Henry Lawson Poems)
It is up from out the alleys, from the alleys dark and vile-It is up from out the alleys I ...
The Sunday Rail: I (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Now range up the carriages, feed up the fires!To the rail, to the rail, now the pent up desiresOf the ...
Bologna: A Poem About Gold (James Wright Poems)
Give me this time, my first and severe Italian, a poem about gold, The left corners of eyes, and the ...
Here In This Land (Karl Kraus Poems)
Here in this land no one gets ridiculebut he who tells the truth. He then must standdefenseless and attract some ...
To a Young Poet (R S Thomas Poems)
For the first twenty years you are still growingBodily that is: as a poet, of course,You are not born yet. ...
The Deceiver (Patience Worth Poems)
I know you, you shamster! I saw you smirking, grinningNodding through the day, and I knew you lied.With mincing steps ...
The New Locksley Hall (Francis W L Adams Poems)
Forty Years AfterCOMRADE, yet a little further I would go before the nightCloses round and chills in darkness all the ...
Speculum Tuscanismi (Gabriel Harvey Poems)
Since Galatea came in, and Tuscanism gan usurp,Vanity above all: villainy next her, stateliness EmpressNo man but minion, stout, lout, ...
False Nightmare (Allen Tate Poems)
I give the yawp barbaricOf piety and pelf(Who now reads Herrick?)And contradict myselfNo matter, the verse is large.My five-and-ten cent ...
Even As A Child (Eugene O Neill Poems)
Even as a child my face was "gloomy." I found few reasons to smile, none to laugh: father gutting his ...
‘Me, A Sinner’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Should it occasion much surprise That criminals should deal in blame,As all of us, and recognise The full depth of ...
The Hock-cart, or Harvest Home (Robert Herrick Poem)
To the Right Honourable Mildmay, Earl of Westmoreland Come, sons of summer, by whose toil We are the lords of ...
The successful man has thrust himself (Stephen Crane Poem)
The successful man has thrust himself Through the water of the years, Reeking wet with mistakes -- Bloody mistakes; Slimed ...
96. The Inventory (Robert Burns Poem)
SIR, as your mandate did request, I send you here a faithfu' list, O' gudes an' gear, an' a' my ...
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...